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Start Here: Kiyooka, Nakamura, Takashima, Tanabe

Sat. September 17th 2022 - Sun. January 22nd 2023 Art Gallery Of Greater Victoria Victoria BC By Donation

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Start Here: Kiyooka, Nakamura, Takashima, Tanabe

Curated by Bryce Kanbara, Guest Curator, Graham Gallery
Event can be attended in person In-Person Event
Sat. September 17th 2022 - Sun. January 22nd 2023 + Add to Calendar Art Gallery Of Greater Victoria (All Ages)
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10AM – 5PM
Wednesday: 10AM – 5PM
Thursday: 1PM – 9PM
Friday: 10AM – 5:00PM
Saturday: 10AM – 5PM
Sunday: 12PM – 5PM
By Donation

Artists

Roy Kiyooka
Kazuo Nakamura
Shizuye Takashima
Takao Tanabe

Presented by:

Art Gallery Of Greater Victoria
Since its inception over sixty years ago, the Art Gallery of...
Open / Operational
Graham Gallery
Bryce Kanbara

Event Description

“This exhibition is an introduction to the work and importance of four nisei (second generation Japanese Canadian) artists born in the latter half of the 1920s. Despite the challenge of making productive lives and fitting into Canadian society, which faced all Japanese Canadians at that time, Roy Kiyooka, Kazuo Nakamura, Shizuye Takashima and Takao Tanabe, independently found their ways to artmaking. They built practices, careers and reputations which have become significant parts of Canadian art and art history.

These four artists, geographically separated and largely unaware of one another, fostered distinctly different practices. Yet, each of them knew the negative consequences of being of Asian heritage in pre-WWII Canada, as well as the paradoxical, beneficial effects that can a... show more

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Art Gallery Of Greater Victoria
1040 Moss street
Art Gallery
Capacity150
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Open / Operational

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